Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola otherwise known as S.L.A. was born on July 6, 1910 in Ogbomosho and died on January 15, 1966. Akintola was a Nigerian politician, aristocrat, orator, and lawyer.

He served as Oloye Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of Yorubaland and served as premier of Western Nigeria from independence in 1960 till his assassination in 1966.

Akintola got his education from the Church Missionary Society school. In 1922, he returned to Ogbomosho to live with his grandfather and subsequently attended a Baptist day school before proceeding to Baptist College in 1925.

After he was trained as a lawyer in the United Kingdom Ladoke Akintola returned to Nigeria in 1949 and teamed up with other educated Nigerians from the Western Region to form the Action Group (AG) under the leadership of Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

At the federal level he served as Minister for Health and later Minister for Communications and Aviation. Akintola was assassinated in Ibadan, the capital of Western Region, on the day of Nigeria's first military coup of January 15, 1966, which terminated the First Republic.

Also known as the "Young Majors Coup" or the "coup of the January boys", the coup resulted in the assassination of many leading politicians, mostly members of the Northern People's Congress. After his death, the Aare Ona Kankanfo title was vacant for 21 years until Chief Moshood Abiola was invested with it as the 14th Aare Ona Kankanfo by Alaafin Adeyemi III of Oyo on January 14, 1988.

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